Sarah Crichton Named Editor-in-Chief, V-P at Holt

Sarah Crichton

Sarah Crichton has been named editor-in-chief and v-p at Henry Holt, effective April 6. In announcing the appointment, Holt president & publisher Amy Einhorn wrote: "I have admired Sarah from afar for many years so I am truly overjoyed to finally have the chance to work with her. Her keen intellect is evident in everything she does. Gifted in both fiction and nonfiction, she is a natural leader, and, most importantly, a passionate advocate for her authors."

During her 25 years in book publishing, Crichton "has cultivated the kind of eclectic list all publishers dream of," Einhorn added. As the publisher of Sarah Crichton Books, her list included Ishmael Beah's bestselling A Long Way Gone; Matthew Quick's The Silver Linings Playbook; Cathleen Schine's The Grammarians; Pulitzer Prize winner David Finkel's The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service; Jason Goodwin's Edgar-winning mystery series The Janissary Tree; and Angie Kim's hit debut Miracle Creek.

Prior to having her own imprint at FSG, Crichton was the publisher of Little, Brown, where she published Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and George Stephanopoulos's All Too Human. She has co-written several books, including A Mighty Heart with Mariane Pearl. She is the daughter of Judy Crichton, author of America 1900: The Turning Point (1998), and of Robert Crichton, author of The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1966) and The Camerons (1972).